Dain,
Thanks.
--- Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2005, at 5:11 AM, anita kulshreshtha
> wrote:
>
> > Let me rephrase this question. Is
> getDeclaredMethod
> > supposed to behave like this? Why is it trying to
> find
> > GBeanAdaptor class. Shouldn't it give
> > NoSuchMethodException? In that case the build will
> > fail gracefully indicating that it is time to
> build
> > openejb! I hope my question is not out of scope of
> > Geronimo.
>
> Yes this is expected. Normally when a class, is
> loaded in Java it is
> not fully resolved. This means that the byte code
> was loaded and
> verified, but not all classes the loaded class
> depends on were loaded.
> This is an optimization by the VM engineers to even
> out load time of an
> application. When you call getDeclatedMethod, the
> class is fully
> resolved, which mean that all dependency classes are
> loaded and this
> can cause a NoClassDefFoundError.
>
> In this case this is caused by an inconsistent build
> which is a very
> abnormal case, so IMO not beneficial to add such a
> check to the code as
> it complicates the code. If this could happen in an
> official release
> (even if it were rare), I would support adding a
> check.
I agree it is not likely to happen in an official
release.
Thanks
Anita
>
> -dain
>
>
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